{"id":27481,"date":"2022-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/?p=27481"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:05:13","slug":"a-new-project-for-women-and-cocoa-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/a-new-project-for-women-and-cocoa-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"A new project for women and cocoa communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SOCODEVI is bolstering its presence in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire with a new project: the women and cocoa communities initiative (IFCC).\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 Funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC), IFCC is a five-year project (2022-2027) aiming to improve the living conditions of rural cocoa communities in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, including 5,000 women and adolescent girls. \u00a0 This is a new comprehensive project for SOCODEVI in consortium with the Paul G\u00e9rin-Lajoie Foundation, a Canadian NGO specializing in education. \u00a0 With the support of Canada and cocoa and chocolate enterprises, SOCODEVI is adopting a multisectoral and integrated approach together with IFCC, drawing on the consortium\u2019s combined expertise in socio-economic development via the cooperative formula and education. The program will focus on the intergenerational transmission of poverty. \u00a0 A total of 30 cocoa cooperative enterprises will be supported by the project, as will be the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Nationales des Femmes Producrices de Caf\u00e9-Cacao de C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire (FNFPCC-CI). \u00a0 Partnerships with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MINADER) and the National Agency for Support to Rural Development (ANADER) will foster cocoa farming communities\u2019 resilience to climate change and socio-economic shocks. \u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4740 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2020-cote-divoire-DDA-KT-femmes-2-1-2-600x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"540\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201c<em>SOCODEVI has been working in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire for more than 35 years within various sectors, especially cocoa, where our support to cooperatives is recognized. Now, the IFCC project will really enable us to empower women and girls in cocoa communities.<\/em><em>We know that they are very involved in cocoa farming and other related income-generating activities (IGAs) and we will build on this to improve their socio-economic empowerment. Of course, we will be focusing on capacity-building for cooperatives, while working toward gender equality and adaptation to climate change. Our collaboration with the public and private sectors will be essenti<\/em><em>al to the sustainability of our initiatives, especially with private cocoa and chocolate enterprises and their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8211; Alexandre Robitaille-Lachance, Country Director, SOCODEVI C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>IFCC comes under Canada\u2019s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) and aligns with the country development priorities in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, and more specifically women and girls\u2019 full participation in the economic growth of their communities and respect for their rights, in particular their right to education.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"view-mode unstyled style-c2ec8a44-e01d-4ffe-8ce3-157b0558e203\"><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOCODEVI is bolstering its presence in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire with a new project: the women and cocoa communities initiative (IFCC).\u00a0 \u00a0 Funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC), IFCC is a five-year project (2022-2027) aiming to improve the living conditions of rural cocoa communities in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, including 5,000 women and adolescent girls. \u00a0 This is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,266,208,46],"tags":[],"categorie-pays":[106],"class_list":["post-27481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agroforestery","category-egalite-des-genres","category-gender-equality","category-uncategorized","categorie-pays-ivory-coast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27481"},{"taxonomy":"categorie-pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socodevi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie-pays?post=27481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}